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...does the White House make these self-destructive defensive maneuvers? The answer may lie in an unlikely comparison. When, at his last press conference, President Bush refused to accept any responsibility for the failures that led to 9/11, and could not, when asked, furnish an example of any mistakes he had made and learned from since then, he reminded me of—of all people—Bill Clinton. You may remember that, as the Monica Lewinsky crisis escalated towards impeachment, many observers remarked that it was not the affair but the lie to the nation...
...also the first Bank of Japan governor in years not to brawl openly with other branches of the government. "For the first time in a long time, Japan has something approaching integrated monetary, fiscal, banking and competitiveness policies," says Koll. But few doubt that Fukui's greatest challenges lie ahead of him. With the economy picking up, a rise in interest rates seems likely. Japan's recovery remains fragile, however, and hiking rates in an economy accustomed to free money is risky. Still, the world's second largest economy is finally battling back with conviction. The question now is whether...
...savvy enough to push Rumsfeld when he wants to. Although Rumsfeld refused last summer to call what was happening in post-Saddam Iraq a guerrilla war, Abizaid forthrightly referred to it as "a classical guerrilla-type campaign." Says a fellow commander about Abizaid: "He's smart enough not to lie...
...represented by at least one piece so that the show contains a diverse assortment of projects. And at least some of these can be categorized as, for example, photo-silkscreens, poster designs, and architectural models, but the majority of the pieces defy any sort of categorization. Presumably they lie somewhere within the ambiguous realm of a "visual study...
...what charitable force is granting all these people second, third and fourth lives in the entertainment industry? The change, interestingly, may not lie with the stars themselves, but instead with the public they entertain. Audiences nowadays are more sophisticated than they were even a few years ago, and are better able to understand the fakery of what they see and hear on the radio and at the movies. Intentionally or not, Simpson, Moore, and others have proven exceedingly adept at using this understanding to reposition themselves back in the public spotlight...